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Originally Posted by astra
Anyone who post on forum, in general IMHO!, state their personal opinion. Sure we could type IMHO after every sentence, but it would make posting a chore  So, well at least that is how I read others' people posts, I always look at them as personal opinion about something, unless told otherwise. |
I see what you're saying, astra, and I think it's good advice, as it happens.
However, the "IMHO's" aren't really needed, per se, either literally or assumed. It's really not that difficult to pick up on the non-explicit textual clues that tell the reader how you view what you're saying. For example, I see from your post (from the parts I snipped out, actually
) that you seem to have no trouble picking up on those cues, and I get the impression that English may not be your native tongue.
For example, I could say, "I did/didn't like such and such." That conveys quite clearly that I view what I'm saying
as an opinion.
If I were to say, "Ice cream is wonderful!" that suggests that I hold the wonderfulness of ice cream to be an incontestable fact. Which, of course, it actually is ... maybe I'll go have a bowl in a minute.
At the same time, most folks who are inclined to think such things through, and who have been around long enough to do so, realize that what I really meant was that I consider ice cream to be wonderful, but the very
nature of the statement, the way it's worded, proclaims that I
regard the claim as a fact.
Now bald proclamations certainly have a legitimate place in discussions like the one we're having, but it's generally regarded as a good idea to at least be
able to provide support for them, otherwise folks tend to start dismissing the things they say as ... not well thought out. That of course, tends to be counterproductive to whatever point the writer is trying to make.